Plainsong Picador Classic

<p><b>Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, <i>Plainsong</i> is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary empathy.</b><br> <br> <b>With an introduction by Peter Carey, author of</b> <b><i>True History of the Kelly Gang.</i></b><br> <br> Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone and, in the same town, school girl Victoria Roubideaux is pregnant and homeless.<br> <br> Brothers Harold and Raymond McPheron - gentle, solitary, gruff and unpolished - agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives will change forever.<br> <br> <b>A novel of haunting beauty from one of America's greatest writers, <i>Plainsong</i> is an undeniable classic that explores the grace and hope of every human life and mankind's infinite capacity for love.</b></p>